Thing Utils for Linux
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If you are a Linux user, you may need to know the following:

The precompiled binaries are compiled on an ELF system, gcc 2.7.0
Custom Kernel 1.2.13.  The Linux source is heavily dependant on QEU v0.3,
which is why it is not distributed here also, as that would mean including
QEU.  I hope that the source will be released with the next version of QEU.

In the meantime, I can send additional source files to those who want them,
just mail me.  You will need QEU 0.3 to compile.  Comaptibility with later
or earlier versions of QEU can not be guaranteed!  Source code to Linux
Thingy is in `C'.

The binaries are the files `exthing' and `upthing'.  You should ensure that
they are in lower case to ease the typing :-)  You should also have executable
permissions on these files (chmod a+x exthing) etc.

Note that the Linux version does _not_ create backups of files it overwrites,
unlike the DOS version.

Die to the fact that UNIX text files don't have extraneous CRs in them, Linux
EXTHING does not add them to the .THG files it creates.  Linux UPTHING does
remove them, however, so that Linux users can use THG files created by DOS
people.

There is a bug in exthing :(  If you omit the THING filename, _and_ extract
the file directly from a pakfile, then the THING filename will be the same
as the PAK file, not the BSP file.

eg:

exthing id1@test1

will produce a file `id1.thg', not `test1.thg'.

<tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk>
